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Solar power plant opens in Chornobyl

32 years after the Chornobyl disaster,  the infamous exclusion zone gets a second life as a solar energy plant opens there. The Chornobyl power plant exploded in 1986, causing 37 immediate deaths  and having long-term effect on the health of thousands of people.

About 115,000 people were evacuated. The area of a 30-kilometer radius around the plant became an exclusion zone.

The talks of revitalizing the zone have been on for a while.